Venus Sickness

Famous quotes containing the words venus and/or sickness:

“Gat-toothed was I, and that bicam me weel;
I hadde the prente of Sainte Venus seel.
As help me God, I was a lusty oon,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)